Heredity and Society (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Whetham, William Cecil Dampier

9781330273463: Heredity and Society (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 133027346X ISBN 13: 9781330273463

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Heredity and Society

Much of the impetus given to educational and philanthropic work during the past century seems to have been due to the spread of this belief, which had been put aside by most men of science almost before its effects were felt among the general public. A multitude of workers arose who were inspired by a zeal for social service and unselfish travail and endeavoured to realize the vision of universal well being which the discredited doctrine had dangled before their eyes.

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Excerpt from Heredity and Society

Since the appearance in 1909 of our book on The Family and the Nation, we have published occasional papers and articles extending some of the ideas therein contained. Although the present volume reproduces the substance of some of these papers, the larger portion of it consists of hitherto unprinted work. To prevent the need of reference to the former book, certain sections have been abstracted and re-written, such as the one on the scientific aspect of Variation, and the statistical portion of the chapter on the Birth-rate; but any one who desires to study these and kindred subjects in more detail must consult the earlier volume, especially the chapters on Inheritance and Variation in Mankind, the Inheritance of Mental Defect and Ability, and the Selective Birth-rate. The causes of the decline in the birth-rate are there likewise discussed.

We wish especially to guard against one misconception into which certain of our former readers and reviewers seem to have fallen. Both this book and its predecessor arc written avowedly to draw attention to the problem of heredity, a conception which has hardly yet penetrated consciously into modern sociology, where the subject of environment has held hitherto almost limitless sway.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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